Sheakespeare's Sonnet 15 in light of our fifteenth year of marriage.When I read the cliff notes it had this to say: life is transitory and ever-changing. Even the youth's beauty will fade over time, but because the poet knows that this metamorphosis is inevitable, he gains an even stronger appreciation of the young man's beautiful appearance in the present time — at least in the present time within the sonnet. Ironically, then, the youth's beauty is both transitory and permanent — transitory because all things in nature mutate and decay over time, and permanent because the inevitable aging process, which the poet is wholly aware of as inevitable, intensifies the young man's present beauty: Generally, the more momentary an object lasts, the more vibrant and intense is its short life span.
I thought that was fitting. Year 15 had a few major transitions. Another house, new school options, and a new job. A lot of reminders that youth is fading, we are tired! 
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity."
(I am working to catch up on the marriage series I started, we left off on year 9.)
I just love this!! A milestone in it's mundane every day kind of "in the trenches of family life", except that 15 years equally yoked to another person is definitely something rare in this age of the world! Congratulations again and again! p.s. This far in, we all know: romance can be falling asleep at 10pm or an unloaded dishwasher, right?
ReplyDeleteIt didn't need a bunch of romantic sap, it was sappy just as it was. Shakespeare's notes and the pictures of love. Congratulations, you two!
ReplyDeleteVery sweet! Congrats lovebirds!!
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